Recorded Events
Back to Black? Identity Politics in Treacherous Times – 22 October 2024
Identities 30th Anniversary Lecture with Professor Claire Alexander
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It is now nearly forty years since Stuart Hall’s seminal 1988 ‘New Ethnicities’ article announced the ‘end of innocence’, or the end of ‘the innocent notion of an essential black subject’. The intervening decades have seen both the fragmentation and re-imagination of racial and ethnic identities, and ongoing racial and ethnic inequalities and exclusions. They have also seen the emergence of new forms of racial exclusion and the resurgence of essentialist forms of identity and resistance. This lecture traces some of these changes and explores some of the contemporary forms of identity politics, and their dangers. In particular it asks: what is the future for racial and ethnic solidarity and how do we find place for hope in treacherous times?
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Fixing France: How to Repair a Broken Republic – 18 March 2024
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How does France work, how did it get here, and how can it change? Nabila Ramdani discusses her newly published book, Fixing France: How to Repair a Broken Republic: France – the romanticised, revolutionary land of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity for all – is failing. Reform is urgently needed. This book is a powerful indictment of the status quo, and a highly original perspective on the challenges to which the nation must rise.
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Affective Control: The Emotional Life of (En)forcing Mobility Control in Europe – 11 March 2024
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Current outcomes of immigration enforcement policies and apparatuses call for rethinking the ethics behind our understanding of community belonging, human rights and just society. The ethics at work are often presented as emotions creating a particular affective atmosphere that permits the ongoing implementation of enforcing migration. The Special Issue and panel focus on and examine emotions as processes of organizing that are mobilized in support of certain ethics.
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Articulating and Categorising Ethnic Identity: Reflections on Politics of Recognition and (Mis)representation in ‘Big Data’ Using the EVENS Survey – 23 February 2024
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In a world awash with data how do we untangle ethnic identifications and their meanings, and how well do ‘big data’ capture ethnic identities? In this talk, Prof Nissa Finney considered how people articulate their ethnic identity, how this is – and isn’t - captured by statistical categorisations used as standard in Britain, and the implications of this for how we conduct research and the creation of knowledge on experiences of minoritized people. The presentation draws on a new, exciting national social survey led by Nissa – the Evidence for Equality National Survey (EVENS).
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Seeing Others: How Recognition Works – and How It Can Heal a Divided World – 13 December 2023
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In this seminar, Professor Michèle Lamont discussed her new book which explores the power of recognition – in rendering others as visible and valued – by drawing on nearly forty years of research and new interviews with young adults, and with cultural icons and change agents who intentionally practice recognition – from Nikole Hannah Jones and Cornel West to Michael Schur and Roxane Gay – showing how new narratives are essential for everyone to feel respect and assert their dignity.
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What Sociologists Learn from Music: Identity, Music-making and the Sociological Imagination – 27 November 2023
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Sociologists very often have extra-curricular lives as musicians. This talk explored the relationship between musical life and sociological identities. Through a range of examples from Howard Becker’s grounding in field research as a pianist in the Chicago jazz clubs and his theories of deviance to the connection between Emma Jackson’s life as a bass player in Brit pop band Kenickie and her feminist punk sociology an argument is developed about the things sociologists learn from music.
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A Conversation on The Souls of White Jokes – 9 October 2023
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This online panel event discussed Raúl Pérez's book, The Souls of White Jokes: How Racist Humor Fuels White Supremacy (2022), which offers a rigorous study of the social meaning and consequences of racist humour. Drawing on a symposium published in Identities: Global Studies in Culture in Power, panellists explored The Souls of White Jokes to think through the book's themes and issues more expansively.
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Racism and the Republic: Understanding the Uprisings in France – 12 July 2023
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The Police killing of 17-year-old Nahel Merzouk in the Paris suburb of Nanterre, joins a long established pattern of racialized police violence in France. The uprisings it sparked, too, are connected with continued mobilizations against state sanctioned racial discrimination, and cannot be understood apart from these encounters. Meanwhile, in speeches, newsrooms and social media posts, the language of ‘riots’ and ‘integration’ obscure these racialized social dynamics, in ways that portray the Republic as a victim of France’s hospitality. How has this come to pass and in what ways can be better understand current and unfolding developments? Join us for this specially convened panel of speakers who can help us to do just this.
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Fireside Chat with Professor Nicola Rollock – 24 March 2023
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Professor Nicola Rollock talks with Professor Nasar Meer about her new book, The Racial Code: Tales of Resistance and Survival, which uses narrative to explore and document the realities of everyday racism.
In this transformative book, Nicola Rollock, one of our pre-eminent experts on racial justice, offers a vital exploration of the lived experience of racism. |
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Decolonizing Politics Symposium – 23 May 2022
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This online roundtable event discussed Professor Robbie Shilliam's book, Decolonizing Politics, which offers a lens through which to decolonize the main themes and issues of political science - from human nature, rights, and citizenship, to development and global justice. Drawing on a published symposium in Identities: Global Studies in Culture in Power, speakers explored the approaches within Decolonizing Politics to introduce a range of intellectual resources from the (post)colonial world to think through the same themes and issues more expansively.
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The Subject of Decolonisation: Literary Critical Insights – 18 November 2019
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Identities Annual Lecture 2019 by Dr Priyamvada Gopal, University of Cambridge, UK
Video credit: Santus Media, Rae Manger |
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